Many fans had hoped that Harry Potter author JK Rowling would pick up her pen once again and start writing the next adventures of Harry, Ron, and Hermione, but Rowling has already said that the trio's stories are now a closed book.
"I think Harry Potter 8, as in what happened next to Harry, Ron and Hermione—I don't think that's going to happen," she told Matt Lauer as he interviewed her during the Today show.
Rowling admitted it's difficult to say no to hopeful and persistent fans, and she said that "even as I answer that, I know that someone's cutting this on YouTube to make it as though I just gave you hope."
And while Rowling is busy writing these days, it does not involve the much-loved boy wizard.
"I'm afraid I haven't been writing the next Harry Potter," she clarified.
What she is writing for the meantime is the script for the Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which hits the big screen in November 2016.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is actually a Hogwarts textbook written by magical zoologist Newt Scamander, and the same-titled movie will feature his adventures and scientific exploits. Moreover, it will be set 70 years before Harry, Ron, and Hermione first stepped foot in Hogwarts.
Rowling did give fans some hope by saying: "I have always said never say... well, not never say never. I've always said I'm not going to say I definitely won't because, because I don't see why I should say that. You know, it's my world, and I might choose to step back into it. And in a way, I am stepping back into it."
So even though Harry and his friends' adventures are through for now, Rowling did say that "the door is always opened to me" as far as writing about the magical world is concerned.
